Raise Error and Exit

Question

I have a situation where if some condition is met, I want to raise an error and exit instead of continuing with the executionI want to raise the error with some user defined message and exit the execution instead of continuing with the code, how can I do this
BEGIN BEGIN
BEGIN TRY
select 1
select 2
RAISERROR('abcd',15,1)
select 4
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
SELECT 5
END CATCH
END
SELECT 3
END
Neil

Answer 1

BOL: Using RAISERROR
You cannot have (dead) code after RAISERROR (SELECT
4):
BEGIN
BEGIN
BEGIN TRY
SELECT 1
SELECT 2
RAISERROR('abcd',20,-1);
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
return;
SELECT 5
END CATCH
END
SELECT 3
END
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